Barbara Mones has been working to develop innovative applications in the area of computer graphics, animation and narrative, immersive technologies in academia and industry for over thirty years. She has worked at the University of Washington in Seattle since 1999 in the Paul G Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, where she is a Teaching Professor, Creative Director of the Animation Research Labs (ARL) and Director of the Reality Lab Studio. At UW, she leads interdisciplinary research and production teams in the areas of facial expression and the design of XR curriculum along with the production of narrative experiences. For 10 years, she was a tenured Associate Professor and the Founding Director of the Visual Information Technologies MA/MFA Program, a course of study in multimedia, computer graphics and animation at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has been coming to SIGGRAPH since 1983, has been a volunteer for many years, and was the recipient of the SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award in 2021.
